Subject: Re: 3.95 problem any help?

From: "...drew" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:26:55 -0600 (CST)

> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:48:07 +0800 (GMT)
> From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: 3.95 problem any help?
> On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 [email-masked] wrote:
> > 	I am running a 3.95 program on another server.  Everytime I want 
> > to post to a newsgroup - it will not send and I get an error message.

<snip>

 	I tink you should tell us what the "error message" is.....> 
> 	Ed
> Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce

Ya... suurr... I vill tell ya....

the error message reads:

	 no space (spool) [innwatch:32] 7559 lt 8000
					   	
Ya... suuurr... dat's vat it says.

d.ole.o.
the smiling norweign

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:17:35 +0800 (GMT)

> Ya... suuurr... dat's vat it says.

	Sounds like the news server has a problem with disk space.
Not much pine can do to help on that one....

	Ed

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:22:44 +0000 (GMT)

> Not much pine can do to help on that one....

I can confirm Ed's diagnosis: the real problem is that the News Server you
are trying to use has run out of storage space for receiving new articles
(either posted to it by people such as yourself, or received from its
neighbouring news servers).

When this happens the news server "throttles" itself so as to prevent any
further articles arriving.  Depending on how it has been configured it may
(usually does) allow people to continue _reading_ News, but they can't
post.

If someone does try and post an article the news server returns an error
message which the news reading software, in this case Pine, reports to
the user.

I suggest you contact the person who administers your Usenet News server
and check that they are aware of the problem; only they will be able to
fix things up.

As an aside, this is another good example of a case where someone's best
course of action would really have been to consult a someone/a Help Desk
at their site, rather than asking random people around the world.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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